Cybersecurity Market Sets Records for Venture Capital in 2021, Expected To Keep Rolling Through 2022
Venture capital flocked to the cybersecurity market in 2021, leading to a record $29.5 billion raised (more than double the amount seen in 2020).
A long-term breach of Japan's national cyber security agency may be the work of state-backed Chinese hackers. The security breach occurred in October 2022 and was disclosed in August of this year.
Second ransomware attack on Toll Group in three months shows lightning can strike twice, and there's no grace period that's honored before the next attack.
Thomson Reuters database leak exposed 3TB of platform information and customer data after the media company left three databases unsecured and publicly accessible for days.
A new data sharing law that recently went into effect in New York City is being challenged by food delivery giant DoorDash on the grounds that it requires revealing too much confidential and sensitive information to restaurants.
Facebook announced an app suspension of “ten of thousands” of apps as part of its privacy investigation. The initiative extends to any app that refuses to answer Facebook how user data is utilized, shared and monetized.
Retailer WH Smith suffered a cyber attack that leaked employee data, including names, dates of birth, and National Insurance Numbers. The incident leaked the data of current and former employees, but customer data was unaffected.
FBI is issuing more cyber security alerts than usual, covering human trafficking, COVID-19 scams, vulnerabilities in networking platforms and cloud-based business email compromise campaigns.
MIT researchers in collaboration with CMU, Brown and Boston University has developed a privacy preserving COVID-19 contact tracing app that uses Bluetooth to broadcast chiprs of random IDs to other devices.
DHS is now requesting that the U.S. Congress grant it extraordinary administrative subpoena powers so that it can request ISPs to turn over the contact information for the owners of industrial control systems.
